November 24 - December 24, 2016

A Christmas Carol

This season we celebrate a remarkable thirty years of bringing A Christmas Carol to Calgary. Stephen Hair returns as Ebenezer Scrooge in the annual production that the Calgary Sun called “the best of all possible versions of A Christmas Carol.” Filled with music and spectacle, there’s no better way to fill your heart with the spirit of Christmas.

Last season we recorded the highest attendance ever for our annual tradition. I can only attribute it to Calgarians’ magical connection to this story and to our desire to remember the true values of the holiday season – no matter what the economic climate brings us. Join us for a celebration of all that is good in humankind. We are in this together, after all. Sing, laugh, and enjoy all that the season has to offer-
Dennis

ForA Christmas Carol

ELSEWHERE: The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, ATP/Ghost River; Turn of the Screw, Dial ‘M’ for Murder, Shear Madness (2015), Travels With My Aunt, Vertigo; Red, That Elusive Spark, The Gift of the Coat, ATP; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Mockingbird Close, The Lover, Lunchbox; My Family and Other Endangered Species, Sequence, Downstage.

AWARDS: Nominated for multiple Betty Mitchell Awards for both acting and playwriting. His play My Family and Other Endangered Species, written in partnership with Ellen Close, was named Best Play at the 2014 Calgary Theatre Critics Awards. 2015 Betty Mitchell Award – The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst.

AWARDS: Betty Mitchell Awards – Romeo & Juliet, Ash Rizin, Twisted. Allison was the proud recipient of the 2011 Stephen Hair Emerging Actor Award. Allison is also a Betty and Jessie nominated sound designer and composer. Her score for The Penelopiad was
performed in productions in Calgary, Vancouver, and Montreal.

Allison holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance/Composition from the University of Calgary and will be releasing her first album in Spring, 2017. Love to Braden, Pottsy and the Lynch-Griffiths families.

FILM/TELEVISION: Mallory Memphis. Evan is in grade 7 and loves the arts. Other interests include skiing, volleyball, hip-hop and singing. Evan will be seen later this season in Seussical the Musical at Storybook Theatre.

ELSEWHERE:In the Wake, Bashir Lazhar, Goodness, Good Fences, Habitat, Man Out of Joint, My Family and Other Endangered Species, Downstage; The Mousetrap, Travels With My Aunt (Betty Mitchell Award – Outstanding Direction), Vertigo; Under the Bright Sun, This is a Play, Lunchbox; The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls, New West Theatre.

FOR THEATRE CALGARY: Dramaturg – A Christmas Carol (2011-15), The Crucible, King Lear (Bard on the Beach co-pro), Liberation Days (WCT co-pro), The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice (NAC co-pro), Much Ado About Nothing, Jake and the Kid, Beyond Eden, Lost – A Memoir. Assistant Director – Enron. Actor – A Christmas Carol (2004–2005).

ELSEWHERE: As a freelance dramaturg, Shari has worked with a wide range of playwrights and plays-in-development at Calgary theatres such as Swallow-A-Bicycle, Vertigo, Quest and Lunchbox to name a few. Prior to joining Theatre Calgary, she was Resident Dramaturg at Alberta Playwrights’ Network. Also a professional actor, she has appeared at Vertigo, ATP, Lunchbox, Stage West, Forte, Quest, Shadow Productions and Dirty Laundry: Calgary’s live, improvised soapopera.

Shari is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and has been with Theatre Calgary since 2007, currently as Interim Artistic Director.

ELSEWHERE:Young Frankenstein, Spamalot, And Then the Lights Went Out, 80’s Solid Gold, The Fox on the Fairway, Avenue Q, Fiddler on the Roof, Chicago, The 39 Steps, Stage West; After Jerusalem, Dads in Bondage, Dad, Day 1, If I Weren’t With You, He Said, She Said, Dad’s Piano, Lunchbox; A Bomb in the Heart, Downstage.